2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-26 - Accidents and Accident Reports
Chapter 31-26-8 - Reports by owner when driver incapable.


RI Gen L § 31-26-8 (2012) What's This?

§ 31-26-8 Reports by owner when driver incapable. – Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required in § 31-26-6 and the driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in the accident shall within twenty one (21) days after learning of the accident make the report not made by the driver.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 23, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 31-26-8; P.L. 1969, ch. 136, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 428, § 1.)

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